Thompson Island named best, hottest wings on the shore
Thompson Island Brewing Company’s Sticky Icky Asian wings won two of three categories at the ninth annual Best Wings on the Shore competition held Feb. 5 at the Crooked Hammock in Lewes.
There were 20 restaurants from Lewes to Ocean City, Md., participating in the competition. Thompson Island won the Best Overall and Hottest categories, while Lewes Oyster House’s pickle-juice-accented submission won Most Creative.
The event was hosted by Ocean 98.1 WOCM-FM, with proceeds benefiting its Cash for College Fund, which provides an annual $2,500 scholarship to an outstanding high school student in Sussex County in Delaware, and Worcester and Wicomico counties in Maryland.
Mountaire Farms donated the fresh wings used for the contest and Crooked Hammock Brewery brewed a brand-new house beer.
For more information on the fund, which has an application deadline of April 30, go to ocean98.com/cash-for-college-fund or email Bill Fuhrer, Ocean 98.1 promotion director, at bill@ocean98.com.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.
